ytdl

a simple cli for downloading youtube video.

Installation

use cargo.

cargo install ytdl

Fetch lastest releases.

macos

wget https://github.com/cssivision/ytdl/releases/download/v0.1.4/ytdl
chmod +x ytdl

linux

wget https://github.com/cssivision/ytdl/releases/download/v0.1.4/ytdl-linux
chmod +x ytdl-linux

Usage

example

ytdl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbWECt0M3CI

USAGE:
    ytdl [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] <url>

FLAGS:
    -a, --append          append to output file instead of overwriting
    -d, --debug           output debug log
    -u, --download-url    prints download url to stdout
    -h, --help            Prints help information
    -i, --info            only output info
    -j, --json            print info json to stdout
        --no-progress     write output to a file
    -s, --silent          only output error, also diables progressbar
    -V, --version         Prints version information

OPTIONS:
    -f, --filter <FILTER>...            filter available formats, syntax: val1 val2 val3
    -o, --output <FILE>                 write output to a file
    -r, --range <RANGE>                 download a specific range of bytes of the video, [start]-[end]
        --start-offset <STARTOFFSET>    offset the start of the video

ARGS:
    <url>    youtube video url, short url or video id

Licenses

All source code is licensed under the MIT License.

Todo

• concurrent download.